I know the day will come when we don't have to have moving parts for bulk storage, and I've been waiting for it ever since the bubble memory failed to kill disks off.
-jcr
Re:Sounds like a great idea for an iPhone app.
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No, I hadn't heard about that. I'd love to get one of those when I have the time to bring it up.
Quotas are just discrimination by another name. Requiring employers to hire based on any criteria other than an applicant's qualifications is a terrible thing to do to anyone already in that profession, especially the members of whatever group is getting the preferential treatment. Any woman employed in the sciences will suddenly come under suspicion as to wether she can actually do the work, or just got the job because of the quota.
-jcr
Sounds like a great idea for an iPhone app.
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It would be way cool to have an Apple I emulator on my phone. Come to think of it, a DEC PDP-1 emulator with SpaceWar would be pretty sweet, too.
the attendees - and the speakers - simply believe that they are better than 99.999% of the human population.
Oh, you're a mind reader, I take it? You're on very thin ice when you presume to state what anyone else believes.
But they don't *do* anything.
I beg to differ. Just off the top of my head, James Watson has been a speaker there, and I'd say that discovering the double helical structure of DNA definitely qualifies as "doing something".
I see that you start your rant by denying a simple fact. Clearly this is an emotional issue for you, which is why you refuse to perceive reality. There's no more point to trying to convince you, you are impervious to reason.
Thanks, that's very helpful. Last I heard, the age of the earth was estimated to be around 4.5 billion years, so that leaves a lot of time before Columbia. Does it make any sense to speak in terms of continents back then? When did the oceans start to form?
Ah yes! where would great reasoners from Aristotle to Leibniz, compilers from Euclid to Record, method-makers from Archimedes to Descartes have been without "capital investment"?
Funny you should bring that up, because every one of them lived in abject squalor compared to the average worker in the USA or Europe today. Daily showers, refrigeration, plentiful food of incredible variety, entertainment available at the touch of a switch, transportation across continents in a single day, and many other things that each of the people you name would find luxurious beyond imagining, are commonplace to us today.
That is so laughably naive it worries me that someone with enough years to have learnt how to speak a language could utter it.
Ah, there you go: you don't have a leg to stand on with any kind of logical argument, so you get snotty.
If I use my boot to stomp your face into the mud,
Why do so many of you pinkos harbor these depraved violent fantasies?
We need to get out of the way and let the local tinpot dictators get on with raping their own countries without outside intereference. Just ask Robert Mugabe!
If we stopped giving financial aid to local dictators, they would be a lot easier for their people to overthrow.
The "movers and shakers" of the world would die without the third world nations,
What's your next guess?
The first world has vastly higher productivity both industrially and agriculturally. We produce surpluses, while third world countries starve under their local dictators.
plunder third world nations and keep the first world in comfort.
Wow.. I'm stunned by the depth of your ignorance.
We're wealthy in the first world because we've raised our productivity through capital investment. Trade with third world countries is a mutual benefit, or else it wouldn't happen. Consider for a moment why it is that the countries with the least foreign trade are the worst off.
- It can't be because of additional round trip, because we are not talking about oneway void methods.
If a method has no return value, then NSConnection and NSProxy don't have to serialize and transmit a return value. This is the case for any void method, whether or not it's also declared oneway.
"To be seen as an idiot in the eyes of an imbecile is a pleasure worthy of a fine gourmet". Guess why it comes to my mind when I read your posts ?
This may be just anecdotal evidence, but the Airport Express series has a reputation for being flaky, and typically dropping flat-out dead after about a year.
I've heard of Airport Express units dying, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they have a bad reputation. Saying that it's typical for them to die after a year is quite an exaggeration.
Gee, that would really hurt if I had any reason to value your judgement. If you think I'm wrong about something, then point out what I said that you disagree with, and explain why you disagree. Taking cheap shots from the cover of anonymity is a snotty and childish thing to do.
If you're going to bash me over the [return self] convention, you really should try to get your facts straight. Returning self has negligible cost within a single process, but it gets expensive in a Distributed Objects context. This is why NeXT changed the convention to only return values when there was a meaningful value to return.
Maybe you worked at NeXT at some point ?
Nope, I never worked for NeXT. I worked for Apple several years after the merger.
You still sound like a I-know-all self-righteous you-know-what...
I have a pair of Apple Airport routers, and the only time they get rebooted is when I change settings and restart them. That happens whenever I want to let another computer use my network, about every couple of months.
The way we were supposed to choose our president was to know and vote for our electors, who were supposed to be the wisest people we knew. Political parties kind of buggered up the plan.
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Cuba's credit is so bad (due to refusal to pay contracts
Is it refusal to pay, or simply lack of funds? Cuba's economy has been a basket case since the Soviets collapsed and quit propping them up.
-jcr
. if a white box screwdriver shop provides an equivalent product to apple's,
They don't. I can run software update on my Mac.
-jcr
kiss innovation and creativity goodby kiddies.
Are you serious? Psystar is a white-box screwdriver shop. They have nothing at all to do with innovation.
-jcr
I know the day will come when we don't have to have moving parts for bulk storage, and I've been waiting for it ever since the bubble memory failed to kill disks off.
-jcr
No, I hadn't heard about that. I'd love to get one of those when I have the time to bring it up.
-jcr
Quotas are just discrimination by another name. Requiring employers to hire based on any criteria other than an applicant's qualifications is a terrible thing to do to anyone already in that profession, especially the members of whatever group is getting the preferential treatment. Any woman employed in the sciences will suddenly come under suspicion as to wether she can actually do the work, or just got the job because of the quota.
-jcr
It would be way cool to have an Apple I emulator on my phone. Come to think of it, a DEC PDP-1 emulator with SpaceWar would be pretty sweet, too.
-jcr
the attendees - and the speakers - simply believe that they are better than 99.999% of the human population.
Oh, you're a mind reader, I take it? You're on very thin ice when you presume to state what anyone else believes.
But they don't *do* anything.
I beg to differ. Just off the top of my head, James Watson has been a speaker there, and I'd say that discovering the double helical structure of DNA definitely qualifies as "doing something".
-jcr
First, the inflatable satellite dish. Second, the six stroke engine.
-jcr
No, sorry, they didn't.
I see that you start your rant by denying a simple fact. Clearly this is an emotional issue for you, which is why you refuse to perceive reality. There's no more point to trying to convince you, you are impervious to reason.
-jcr
Thanks, that's very helpful. Last I heard, the age of the earth was estimated to be around 4.5 billion years, so that leaves a lot of time before Columbia. Does it make any sense to speak in terms of continents back then? When did the oceans start to form?
-jcr
Ah yes! where would great reasoners from Aristotle to Leibniz, compilers from Euclid to Record, method-makers from Archimedes to Descartes have been without "capital investment"?
Funny you should bring that up, because every one of them lived in abject squalor compared to the average worker in the USA or Europe today. Daily showers, refrigeration, plentiful food of incredible variety, entertainment available at the touch of a switch, transportation across continents in a single day, and many other things that each of the people you name would find luxurious beyond imagining, are commonplace to us today.
That is so laughably naive it worries me that someone with enough years to have learnt how to speak a language could utter it.
Ah, there you go: you don't have a leg to stand on with any kind of logical argument, so you get snotty.
If I use my boot to stomp your face into the mud,
Why do so many of you pinkos harbor these depraved violent fantasies?
-jcr
I was quite surprised when I learned several years ago that Pangea wasn't the only one. Could someone well-versed in geology fill us in here?
-jcr
We need to get out of the way and let the local tinpot dictators get on with raping their own countries without outside intereference. Just ask Robert Mugabe!
If we stopped giving financial aid to local dictators, they would be a lot easier for their people to overthrow.
-jcr
The "movers and shakers" of the world would die without the third world nations,
What's your next guess?
The first world has vastly higher productivity both industrially and agriculturally. We produce surpluses, while third world countries starve under their local dictators.
-jcr
plunder third world nations and keep the first world in comfort.
Wow.. I'm stunned by the depth of your ignorance.
We're wealthy in the first world because we've raised our productivity through capital investment. Trade with third world countries is a mutual benefit, or else it wouldn't happen. Consider for a moment why it is that the countries with the least foreign trade are the worst off.
-jcr
- It can't be because of additional round trip, because we are not talking about oneway void methods.
If a method has no return value, then NSConnection and NSProxy don't have to serialize and transmit a return value. This is the case for any void method, whether or not it's also declared oneway.
"To be seen as an idiot in the eyes of an imbecile is a pleasure worthy of a fine gourmet". Guess why it comes to my mind when I read your posts ?
Because you project your faults onto others.
-jcr
This may be just anecdotal evidence, but the Airport Express series has a reputation for being flaky, and typically dropping flat-out dead after about a year.
I've heard of Airport Express units dying, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they have a bad reputation. Saying that it's typical for them to die after a year is quite an exaggeration.
-jcr
Gee, that would really hurt if I had any reason to value your judgement. If you think I'm wrong about something, then point out what I said that you disagree with, and explain why you disagree. Taking cheap shots from the cover of anonymity is a snotty and childish thing to do.
-jcr
Is that you, David Stes?
If you're going to bash me over the [return self] convention, you really should try to get your facts straight. Returning self has negligible cost within a single process, but it gets expensive in a Distributed Objects context. This is why NeXT changed the convention to only return values when there was a meaningful value to return.
Maybe you worked at NeXT at some point ?
Nope, I never worked for NeXT. I worked for Apple several years after the merger.
You still sound like a I-know-all self-righteous you-know-what...
Only to ignorant prats like you.
-jcr
You're right, I am indeed filtering by MAC addresses.
-jcr
"Buy one that works" is an extremely arrogant comment.
What a silly thing to get indignant about. Try to work it out in therapy.
-jcr
I have a pair of Apple Airport routers, and the only time they get rebooted is when I change settings and restart them. That happens whenever I want to let another computer use my network, about every couple of months.
-jcr
Sounds a lot like a monarchy
Nope, it sounds like a committee. The electors were supposed to be performing an occasional, temporary public duty, like serving on a jury.
-jcr
The way we were supposed to choose our president was to know and vote for our electors, who were supposed to be the wisest people we knew. Political parties kind of buggered up the plan.
-jcr